Think of Michael
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832702398
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lynnfield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6179224000
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,734
- Expenses
- $104,838
- Assets
- $56,099
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carmela A Dalton (President)
- James R Dalton (Vice President)
- Stacey Cook (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Carmela A Dalton (President)
- Richard P Dalton (Treasurer)
- James R Dalton (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primary Exempt Purpose: To provide assistance to lndividuals and families dealing with substance use disorder throughout Eastern Massachusetts as well as raise awareness within the Greater Boston area so as to address the stigma associated with addictions.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization's programs benefit individuals in recovery. The Sober House Scholarship Program in which a qualified individual referred to the organization by a clinician or a drug court receives a minimum of one month's free rent at a certified sober home. That month of free rent provides the individual the time to obtain employment and generate the income necessary for them to pay the rent on their own. The sober home provides them with the structure that is necessary for them to succeed. In calendar year 2023 the organization provided subsidies to 62 applicants. There is no way to measure success in the traditional data driven approach. Once they leave the Sober Home, we lose contact with many of them. Relapse if fairly common. Our "accomplishment" is providing them the opportunity. Our Night of Hope is held on the Town Common in Lynnfield, MA. It attracts on average 500 people. The Middle School and High School age children are well represented. We have a short march from the Middle School and proceed to the Town Common. We have two main speakers. One more targeting the parents and the other targeting the youngsters. It's been well received by the community and has been the catalyst for open discussion about the disease. We also support the after school and summer programs at the North Shore Recovery High School where students ages 14 to 19 are offered extra curricula activities that expose them to a sense of community while experiencing enjoying themselves in a sober environment. We also support the Ruth Kelly Recovery Home where typically 14 or so mothers in recovery are housed along with their children. Typically, there are about 18 children housed with their mothers. In December we fund the Annual Christmas Party where each child receives gifts and the families enjoy a traditional Christmas dinner. Lastly, we provide supportive services to individuals in recovery in the form of sponsoring tournaments and various events designed to bring individuals in recovery together to not only enjoy the event but also provide them an opportunity to realize how many people are in recovery and doing well for themselves.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 88% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.7%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -78.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.6% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.7% of revenue deployed · 27.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.